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Summary: Use bass lines to beef up a hip-hop or rap beat you made with an Akai MPC 2000XL drum machine; learn how with tips from our professional disc jockey in this free DJ music video lesson.
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Amir Tauheed Amir Tauheed has been working in music production for over 7 years. He has extensive knowledge of the MPC and its operations. He is currently co-owner of Prec... read more
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Questions & AnswersHi, I’m Amir from Precision Audio Productions and we’re continuing with our beat in one of the last elements of our beats is the bass line. The bass line is usually played by a bass guitar, which gives us that low end, it fills out the beat, it gives low end drive to the beat. In our beat we have a bass line, it’s that low frequency that you hear in the background, added to all the elements, helps fill out the beat. Without the bass line a lot of times it doesn’t feel complete it feels very empty. I’m Amir from Precision Audio Productions, thank you very much.
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good tip man for someone like me that just started making beats i don't have an MPC but step by step will get me there good work i loved that samplerss ....
wt a waste of time, your tutorials barely scratch the surface. that bassline tutorial is totally irrelevant to the use of a drum machine i.e the MPC 2000XL. not to be rude or disrespectful but this Amir guys comes up top of most MPC tutorial searches but he's not saying anything. Could you please make slightly longer in depth videos which can help us develop the craft. How you load one drum sample is how you load and program all. Instead of havin a video 4 hihats, the snare, then kick, why not just do one on how to load drums and get to do the more fundamental stuff like how to connect your MPC to controllers, sync to PC/Mac wit Cubase/Pro Tools/ Logic, how to adjust pitch etc.... not to rant but damn, you aint saying nufin bra, total waste of time. Its frustrating!!!!!